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The Empire State of the South: Georgia History in Documents and Essays offers teachers of Georgia history an alternative to the traditional narrative textbook. In this volume, students have the opportunity to read Georgia history rather than reading about Georgia history. Encompassing the entirety of Georgia history into the twenty-first century, The Empire State of the South is suitable for all courses on Georgia history.

Preface

Introduction

p. 1

Georgia: The Natural Setting

Colonial Beginnings to 1764

p. 5

Documents

Guale Game and Ceremony

p. 7

Colonial Charter

p. 8

James Oglethorpe Reports on the Settlement of Georgia

p. 10

Oglethorpe's First Treaty with the Lower Creeks

p. 11

James Oglethorpe on English Ownership of Georgia

p. 12

Antonio de Arredondo on Spanish Ownership of Georgia

p. 14

Proposal Relating to the War in Georgia and Florida

p. 15

Pro Memoria from the Late Trustees of the Colony of Georgia

p. 16

Essays

The Yamassee Revolt of 1597

p. 17

Frederica in 1742

p. 20

The Revolutionary Era, 1765-1787

p. 26

Documents

Stamp Act Crisis

p. 28

Tondee's Tavern Resolutions

p. 29

Rules and Regulations

p. 31

Constitution of 1777

p. 33

Proposed Union of Georgia and South Carolina

p. 35

Land Grants to Georgia's Revolutionary Soldiers

p. 38

Essays

The British Capture of Savannah

p. 38

Land and Allegiance in Revolutionary Georgia

p. 44

Georgia in the New Nation, 1787-1845

p. 48

Documents

Ordinance Ratifying the U.S. Constitution

p. 49

Constitution of 1789

p. 50

Legislative Committee Report on Yazoo Land Fraud

p. 53

Constitution of 1798

p. 54

Governor to Be Chosen by Popular Vote

p. 57

Request for Removal of Federal Troops from Georgia

p. 58

Nullification Resolves

p. 59

Western and Atlantic Railroad Surveys

p. 61

Essays

The Georgia Gold Rush

p. 63

Political Parties in the Jacksonian Era

p. 66

The Native American Nations

p. 72

Documents

Compact of 1802

p. 74

Treaty of Fort Jackson

p. 75

An Address to the Whites by Elias Boudinot

p. 76

Constitution of the Cherokee Nation

p. 78

Cherokee Phoenix

p. 80

Georgia Assumes Control over Cherokee Land

p. 81

Worcester v. State of Georgia

p. 82

Treaty of New Echota

p. 84

Essays

Georgia and Muscogee/Creek Treaties

p. 86

The Cherokee Trail of Tears

p. 89

Antebellum Economics

p. 93

Documents

Southern Cultivator

p. 94

Cultivation of Indigo in Georgia?

p. 95

Georgia's Economic Resources

p. 96

Augusta Plantation House

p. 98

General Agricultural Statistics

p. 99

General Industrial Statistics

p. 100

Agriculture in the Confederate States

p. 100

Essays

Rice Culture in Low Country Georgia

p. 101

Cotton Textiles in Georgia, 1810-1865

p. 104

Slavery and Free African Americans

p. 109

Documents

Law Prohibiting Slavery in Georgia

p. 110

Darien Antislavery Petition, 1739

p. 111

Law Permitting Slavery in Georgia

p. 112

Emancipating Two Georgia Slaves

p. 113

Population of Slaves and Free African Americans, 1790-1860

p. 114

The State of Georgia Becomes a Slave Owner

p. 114

Restrictions on Free Persons of Color

p. 115

Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands

p. 116

William and Ellen Craft in Boston

p. 117

Essays

Slavery in Georgia

p. 118

Free African-American Women in Savannah

p. 122

The Civil War Era, 1845-1865

p. 127

Documents

Georgia Platform

p. 130

Robert Toombs on the Sectional Conflict and Secession

p. 131

Alexander H. Stephens on the Sectional Conflict and Secession

p. 132

Ordinance of Secession

p. 134

Alexander H. Stephens's Cornerstone Speech

p. 134

Constitution of 1861

p. 135

Two Views of Class Voting Patterns

p. 138

Indictment of Henry Wirz

p. 140

Essays

The Georgia Homefront during the Civil War

p. 141

Wilson's Raid through Georgia

p. 145

Women in Georgia

p. 150

Documents

Mary Muscrove Bosomworth's Land Acquisition

p. 152

Women's Riots during the Civil War

p. 153

Activities of the Georgia WCTU

p. 154

Farmers Wives and Their Needs

p. 155

An Open Letter for Woman Suffrage

p. 156

Women's Suffrage Bill

p. 157

Rebecca L. Felton's Senate Speech

p. 158

Eleanor Roosevelt Visits and Speaks at Georgia State Woman's College

p. 159

Women to Serve as Jurors

p. 161

Essays

Land Grants to Georgia Women, 1755-1775

p. 162

The Last Phase of the Woman Suffrage Movement in Georgia

p. 166

Reconstruction, 1865-1871

p. 171

Documents

Sherman's Special Field Orders, No. 15

p. 173

Constitution of 1865

p. 175

Constitution of 1868

p. 177

Black Legislators Protest Their Expulsion from General Assembly

p. 181

Colonel O. H. Howard Reports on the Camilla Massacre

p. 183

Reconstruction Ended in Georgia

John B. Gordon Testifies on the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia

p. 185

Essays

Sherman's Reservation in Georgia

p. 187

Black Politicians in Reconstruction Georgia

p. 190

Postwar Politics and Economics, 1865-1890

p. 194

Documents

Sample Tenant Farmer Contract

p. 196

Crop Lien Law

p. 197

Convict-Lease System Established

p. 198

Henry Grady's "New South"

p. 198

Creation of the Georgia Department of Agriculture

p. 199

Constitution of 1877

p. 201

1880 Resignation-Appointment Controversy

p. 204

General Agricultural Statistics

p. 205

General Industrial Statistics

p. 205

Essays

The New Departure Democrats in Georgia

p. 206

The Farmers' Alliance in Georgia

p. 210

Jim Crow Georgia, 1890-1920

p. 215

Documents

Atlanta Compromise Speech

p. 216

White Primary

p. 218

The Georgia Equal Rights Convention, 1906

p. 218

Atlanta Race Riot

p. 219

Disfranchisement Legislation

p. 221

A Lynching Rampage in South Georgia

p. 222

A Statement from Governor Hugh M. Dorsey as to the Negro in Georgia

p. 223

Essays

Black Georgia in the Progressive Era

p. 225

The Geography of Lynching in Georgia, 1880-1930

p. 228

The Progressive Era, 1890-1920

p. 235

Documents

Tom Watson Urges a Boycott on Jute

p. 236

Georgia's People's Party Platform in 1892

p. 238

Banning Football in Georgia?

p. 239

Charles Herty Describes His Cup and Gutter System of Turpentine Collection